![]() ![]() Well, fall came and went and the update never arrived, nor did they update the blog (nor Facebook page) with any explanation nor revised date. They wrote in their blog in July 2017 that there was a major update coming in the fall. In addition, I'm a little nervous about the Staffpad developers. In other words, Staffpad has its own samples and playback engine for what you've written, but if the program does not recognize what you've written, it will not play it back. I agree with xKnuckles thoughts though I will add that while you can handwrite anything, if you want to HEAR it, you do have to follow Staffpad's rules. Which is kinda funny to spend four or five hundred bucks to use a seventy dollar program. I picked up a used Surface Pro 3 exclusively to use with Staffpad. It has made me look forward to writing out music in a way that I never did when I was using cubase. I am a big fan of the program simply because it is so enjoyable to use. No having to outwit it if you wish to do something out of the ordinary. So if I wanted to put extra beats or whatever in a bar, it lets me. I love the fact that it doesn't have a ton of notation rules. The developers are helpful if you contact them. I am hoping that they will soon address this. This is fine - but if you transpose the score, you have to write them all out again. At present, for example, chord symbols have to be drawn by hand and stay like that. Its flaws at present are simply that it is in its infancy and has more features to add. Easier than most other programs I have tried. Generally speaking, it is extremely well thought out and intuitive to use. If you write a bar which it cannot make sense of, it just leaves it handwritten until you edit it to the correct notation. ![]() Your noteheads would not be recognised by staffpad, but you could still write them. Each bar which is correctly written is instantly changed to printed notation as soon as you start the next bar. You do have to learn to write the notes & rests the way it recognises (which is not difficult, but requires a little time and effort.) Then it becomes second nature. It is a delight to use, and once you get used to it, feels like you are hand notating (which you are).
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